: What software can open older Jasc PSP 9 files? I'm a long time (but occasional) user of PSP 9, and while it still does everything I need, I can no longer find any support, either paid or

@Jennifer810

You don't say what kind of work you do create, but you may find that Photoshop Elements is more than adequate for your purposes, for all that it skews toward amateur photographers. It's a surprisingly powerful, vastly under-rated program, and has been since its early versions.

Failing that, you can find older versions of Photoshop for sale on eBay (be careful -- you don't want a pirated or cloned copy) or craigslist (be even more careful). Any version later than 7 will more than suffice as far as functionality goes, but you'll have to be alert to which versions are compatible with your OS.

PSP can save files as PSDs, which means you can then open them in any version of Photoshop or Elements.

Elements and Big Daddy Photoshop are both available as free trials. A couple of hours on lynda.com (using a week's free trial!) should be more than enough to give you the familiarity you need to make a choice.

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